What do you think of my side project?

Posted by swanz on Saturday February 26, 2011 @11:21AM
from the self-post dept.

Hey guys!

In the process of learning a little bit of php+js, I started putting together a simple visual search engine, primarily for books. Currently it gets data from amazon and ebay (bookdepository and betterworldbooks are on the way).

You can find it here: http://kooklab.com/factotum

Clearly I'm not much of a designer, so it looks pretty ugly; any comment or idea would be appreciated.

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Re:What do you think of my side project? by valjavec on Saturday February 26, 2011 @12:54PM (#2266038)

If that's beginning of learning php+js just keep on. Probably you can't expect to win the world with what you've just build, but learn as much as you can and polish UX - like sorting books, pre-load next results so you get new book instantly when you press "more results" or whatever comes up to your mind.

Take it as a first step, use it as a reference and go for next step and so on.

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Re:What do you think of my side project? by jeduga on Saturday February 26, 2011 @12:18PM (#2265946)

What type of advantage does this give you from just looking at amazon.com?

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